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Constructional Change in English

By Martin Hilpert

Constructional Change in English

By Martin Hilpert

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Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over remembered exemplars of language use. These exemplars are stored with all their formal and functional properties, yielding constructional generalizations that contain many parameters of variation. Over time, as patterns of language use are changing, the generalizations are changing with them. This book illustrates the workings of constructional change with three corpus-based studies that reveal patterns of change at several levels of linguistic structure, ranging from allomorphy to word formation and to syntax. Taken together, the results strongly motivate the use of construction grammar in research on diachronic language change. This new perspective has wide-ranging consequences for the way historical linguists think about language change. It will be of particular interest to linguists working on morpho-syntax, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2005-09-15
Publication Date:
2013-11-27
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
11070134881107036402
ISBN13:
9781107013483
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
515 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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